(n.) One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
(n.) One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miliband said he had been "right" to raise the past record of MEP Michał Kamiński despite the insistence of Poland's chief rabbi that his countryman was not antisemitic, despite his "problematic" past.
(2) Thomas Countryman, former US acting undersecretary for arms control and international security, commented: “It’s an indication of how rapidly our standards are falling when we’re reasonably pleased that President Trump has not made an obvious error.” Pre-meeting hype had focused on whether Trump would confront Putin over Russia’s interference in the US election.
(3) The resident EBV genome was simultaneously induced to replicate by using a cotransfected expression plasmid for the EBV immediate-early transactivator, Z (J. Countryman, H. Jenson, R. Seibl, H. Wolf, and G. Miller, J. Virol.
(4) The late Peter Porter called his fellow countryman "the custodian of Australia's soul".
(5) Waterford Crystal itself, set up in 1947 by the Czech emigré Karel Bacik, became an astonishing success, pushed along by the design skills of his fellow countryman "Paddy" [Miroslav] Havel .
(6) While Fiorentina’s Juan Cuadrado is not thought to be high on Van Gaal’s list, the Ajax midfielder Daley Blind, is on the manager’s radar, along with countryman Stefan de Vrij, the Feyenoord defender, and Arsenal’s Thomas Vermaelen, though it is not thought any deal for him would currently involve a United player in part-exchange with Arsenal.
(7) Sinclair is now at Villa , Rodwell at Sunderland and their countryman James Milner has left City for Liverpool .
(8) Trump had accepted Putin’s assurances, Countryman said: “It certainly was the minimum that any US president should have done in this situation.
(9) Garcès will take charge of Saturday’s clash between South Africa and New Zealand, with his countryman Romain Poite and Ireland’s John Lacey appointed as assistant referees.
(10) In the 1960s he lived mostly in Europe, especially Paris, where he met and mixed with other writers, from his fellow countryman Octavio Paz to the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar.
(11) Scott, a farmer and countryside campaigner, is better known co-presenter of the BBC2 series Clarissa and the Countryman with Clarissa Dickson Wright.
(12) There was even a joke with his countryman, William Shatner, about signs of life on the blue planet below.
(13) You look at the new Mini – the new Mini came out and then there were two or three different engine variants but now there is the Mini convertible, the Mini Countryman, the Mini which is bigger.
(14) I want to enjoy this win but I will fight anyone.” Groves’ previous two losses in world title fights came to countryman Carl Froch.
(15) So he sold his British racing green Speedster and bought the sensible Countryman model, the one with two creaky back doors.
(16) In September, launching the consultation, Paice said: "As a countryman my view is that free shooting would, in most cases, be by far the most effective option."
(17) Micronuclei (MN) were scored according to Countryman's standard, and 2000 interphase was observed in each subject of CVMN frequency.
(18) When the minister for the natural environment and fisheries, Richard Benyon , last week posted a picture on Facebook of himself bravely pulling up a ragwort plant while being watched by a quizzical cow, he probably thought the image of a true countryman being tough on weeds would go down well with the voters.
(19) While Ross could not sue for libel across the Atlantic, his threatened action for libel forced the publisher of the British edition of Microbe Hunters to delete the chapter about Ross and one about David Bruce, Ross's countryman.
(20) But she is not getting the ultimate accolade – granted to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, or her countryman Pope Benedict – of giving a joint address in Westminster Hall.
Countrymen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Countryman
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent video featured Bosnian fighters urging their countrymen to join the group.
(2) The lower concentrations of cholesterol were observed in blood serum of countrymen of the district, where the diet involved mainly milk-vegetable food containing high amounts of cotton oil.
(3) Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who has previously compared the Republican presidential nominee to Hitler and Mussolini , tried to strike a more emollient tone, tweeting : “I believe in dialogue to promote the interests of Mexico in the world and to protect Mexicans wherever they are.” Many of his countrymen, especially among the intellectual elite, were rather blunter as they anticipated the arrival of a man who has accused Mexico of “bringing their worst people” to America, including criminals and rapists.
(4) Unlike many of his countrymen, however, his family said Berhe stayed put in Sudan while he tried to find a safer route to the west than the hellish route through the Sahara and across the Mediterranean.
(5) To the ordinary Londoner, unless he happened to know Rossettis fine portrait, the poets figure was latterly strange; and, like his poetry, the personality of Mr. Swinburne appealed scarcely at all to the imagination of the great mass of his countrymen.
(6) The volte face was a result of Russian blackmail, the Lithuanian president's office said as senior officials in Brussels said Yanukovych was sacrificing the hopes and wishes of most of his countrymen on the altar of Russian money and contracts.
(7) Poland's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Witold Sobków, defended the right of eastern Europeans to settle in Britain and warned David Cameron not to "stigmatise" his countrymen as benefit cheats.
(8) Yet even more liberal forces within Qatar urge caution, fearing a backlash if conservative countrymen believe they are being bounced into action by the west.
(9) He lives in a different world from the rest of his countrymen and can spend a lot of money promoting himself, but whether he will be able to speak for the millions who are tired of living poor lives in a "managed democracy" is another matter.
(10) But what will be the point if, having done so, we continue to abandon the hundreds of thousands of our poor countrymen?
(11) It has killed 249 of their countrymen so far since March, 961 worldwide, and prompted 1,779 reported cases internationally.
(12) Unlike many of his countrymen, who lack the resources and connections to travel overseas, Kim Jong-nam travels freely and spends much of his time in China or the country's special autonomous region of Macau, the centre of Asian gambling.
(13) The numbers of our fellow countrymen and women in work are rising.
(14) After its appearance Sandile Memela wrote an apology to any South Africans he had offended: An apology to my fellow countrymen
(15) "The past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war."
(16) Formerly one of the most dynamic political leaders in the world with a globe-trotting schedule and a weekly, unscripted TV broadcast – often hours long – Chávez shocked his countrymen in June 2011 when he revealed that Cuban surgeons had removed a baseball-sized tumour from his pelvic region.
(17) Since Nigeria's president persuaded her to sort out the country's infamously chaotic finances and rein in its notorious corruption she's been hailed by world leaders and reviled by her fellow countrymen.
(18) Perhaps alone among his countrymen, Deco would be happy to see his Chelsea team-mate take the field.
(19) I still stubbornly believe that, and I hope passionately, with all my heart, that my countrymen and whatever governments may be in power will allow me to go on believing that to the end of my days.
(20) The recent arrival of Ferran Soriano, the chief executive, and Txiki Begiristain, the director of football, each of whom previously held the same positions at the Catalan club, prompts Silva to say of his countrymen: "They were part of a club which won every title there was to win in both Spain and in Europe.